Fairly typical cosmetic fix…

There are a ton of *area isolation* tutorials available. You will probably use a roto-mask. In your case you will probably have to do an X-Y translation track, possibly incorporating a bit of rotation. In any case, if you are using a Full (paid, not free) license of Resolve, a blur, mist, or skin FX plugin (which is…

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I did something like this a number of years ago, without all the glitzy Assistive Bots.

I used SHAKE to generate a motion path (that’s how long ago) and a radiant filter that I masked with a spline matte that was semi-automated. Much easier as a green screen.

It was incredibly tedious.

Make it easier on yourself, unless you wish to portray your…

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AS per KKK’s of $$$;…yes it might. I turned the acquisition into an investment by offering calibration services, and of course save on fees by doing it myself, sometimes forever if the monitor is stubborn. The net has to be calculated against the alternatives. Either choose a Very Expensive grade monitor, and there are some terrific 4K HDR…

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Tempted to just send you mine for the shipping cost, as I fired it up once since the last Calibration check (Atlanta). Retirement has this effect – that you wind up with a bunch of equipment that you will never use again. External GPUs, Grade monitors, a room full of hard drives, etc.

The stumbling block here is that the last time I sent it to…

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No need to start from scratch.

There is a “round trip” workflow that we have been using for some time, involving exporting a project via XML between applications – it works both ways to and from editing programs. Essentially it allows users to elect their application of choice for various phases of a project finish. Resolve has a number of…

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Yeah. Ouch.

Scene Detection is the automated way to go. It has its limitations and gotchas.

Consider trying to set up a scenario with a bare-bones EDL, since you are dealing with a single Video Layer (Textless, I hope), then use the EDL as a cutting guide. The Blade tool is going to be something that you may become very familiar with, even if your…

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Depending on the final file size, you could probably get away with formatting the thumb drives in FAT32, which would likely be universally readable. You will have to optimize the data density so that the bitrate can be sustained by whatever player system they are likely to use — directly off the drive into a smart TV, AirPlay from a laptop, or…

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If you are happy with your FCPX version of the *Ken Burns* still manipulation, the sure-fire method is to export the sequence as a .mov, re-imbed it or render and conform back in either FCPX or Resolve. As another contributor noted, there are a large number of Lost in Translation parameters that can go awry, even if the instructions are intact.

So many ways to create a mis-match condition. A few of my machines had internal generators so I could pre-stripe entire cassettes, and then it was a matter of setting the TCG to “Regen” so it would ignore incoming timecode.

There was a time in the distant past where we initialized all our crystal-black tapes to start at 23:58:50:00 so that the…

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“Double” the duration, &c. makes me wonder if the system is confused about frame rate. I would try unifying the system at 25i. The Standard Def decks you refer to are likely not going to understand anything else. Make sure the Tape Deck isn’t in some sort of feedback-loop with the Resolve system as far as external reference is conerned. It should…

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@Bob

I’ve got a couple of interfaces; a Decklink4K in my now ancient MacPro and an UltraStudio tied to my iMac.

The pygmy pony is a Frank Zappa reference “Movin’ to Montana” as I am retired, more or less officially.

JPO

Digitizing analogue video was part of my bread-and-butter for awhile. The tricky part is usually the remote control (RS422) or whatever the deck interface is happiest with. Next is avoiding matrixing errors – try to go with as close to raw component as possible: Y / R-Y / B-Y. You don’t really require Resolve to control and ingest media; freankly…

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“When I grab the playhead in the ‘Edit’ window to ‘scrub’ through the timeline it jitters all over the place, like it’s jumping between quarter and 1 second…”

Long-GOP.

Highly-compressed codecs achieve their low bit-rate density by reducing the file size through the mechanism of only recording one “real” (*intra) frame at intervals, and then “fil…

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A matter of some however slight interest to me as well. I am semi-retired and the hardware that I have kept over is headed for recycling as well. 😂 Apple is going to *obsolete* [verb] (and app developers are accelerating the process) so that anything over a few years old won’t work with anything coming down the pipe. I can’t run Resolve17 on my…

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After 18 years of handling videotape, online editing, I was hired on as a telecine transfer artist and trained on a daVinci 8:8:8 digital color corrector.That was 1994; davsys offered in-person classes at their facility in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea (Florida). Ten days at a HoJo on the beach. Started to encounter non-linear media while sitting in on…

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The answer depends on your editing system. If you expand the XAVC codec to an intra format like ProResHQ, the storage will balloon, but processing time won’t be as intensive. If you leave the source media *as is*, it will just mean that your CPU will spend some Flops decoding the Long-GOP H264. The alternative is to transcode to a proxy codec of…

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So, “TLDR”… ‘You have reached a limitation with DaVinci Resolve’

generally indicates that you have used a feature in the Studio version that the Free version does not support. Could be Noise Reduction, could be a premium plugin / transition/ grade, OFX or some other, including a UHD resolution limitation. You’ll probably have to weed it out…

Qualify the windows with, yes, a window or two…

Use curves to crush out the amount of detail that you want to subtract.

If it’s SDI to your monitor, might it be a Dual Link issue?

Based on some of the issues I’ve been seeing with use of the Black Magic eGPU Radeon Pro580, some older iMacs may have some issues that none of the manufacturers have a handle on.

One thing to check first is whether or not Resolve is seeing the eGPU, and your Preferences for image processing are in order. You should expect problems if trying to…

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Pretty much.

Media Manage is similar to the legacy FCP7 approach. You do have options about how to set it up — selected clips, selected timeline…

It can be extremely time consuming, depending on whether certain parts of the sequence has embedded special characteristics (speed effects will cause the entire clip to be archived, not just trim…

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BlackMagic supplies an application called “Disk Speed Test” which isn’t theoretical at all.

What it tells you is your current configuration’s performance and you can extrapolate from that.

It is slightly more complicated than doubling up the numbers since the CPU/GPU balance will come into play once the Resolve application is ingesting and…

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Assuming you also edited on a 23.98P timeline, in Delivery, Master settings / Video:

You have chosen your codec (DnX, ProRes…) Resolution… Frame Rate… drop down to 29.97 (3:2) — another option appears “Drop frame” probably not relevant for a :30, but deliveries can be picky… New option is to use Constant Bit Rate — won’t make much…

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No, not particularly “free”.

First point of reference should be the BlackMagic Configuration Guide:

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/ca/support/family/davinci-resolve-and-fusion

scroll down under “Latest Support Notes” to the guide published for version 15, dated 09 August 2019.

I’m running version 16 on an iMac 5K with a Thunderbolt / USB3 external…

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Would you like to keep things as simple as possible, or would you prefer to encumber the process with color management that is often beyond your control and adds transforms that some people really don’t like?

If your project (apparently) is rec709 straight-through, then choosing to overlay a color management process is just adding a layer of…

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One possibility (long shot) is that occasionally a clip won’t re-link if there is a duration discrepancy — you ask how? The only TC that Resolve takes into account is the STARTING count, and the rest is extrapolated from the frame rate. Otherwise your strategy of re-establishing the 01: hour is the orthodox method of fixing this.

Something to try…

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“extra minute”…?

1:00:00:00 is one hour, and is basically an industry standard designed to avoid negative time. Basically because there was a convention to add test signals, slate, countdown &c. prior to Program Start *in the olden days.* I was never that fond of it myself because it messes up some synchronization with leader occasionally for…

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If you have not consulted the BMD Resolve Support page and reviewed their configuration guide, that would be the best place to start. There may not be a lot of help there, specific to a 10-year old platform, so you may have to step back a few documents. There are OS conflicts in later versions of Resolve and the vestiges of the AMD/nVidia war that…

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